Re: [PATCH 0/4] Pulling refs files

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"DB" == Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] writes:

DB> On Sat, 14 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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I am having a bit hard time understanding how the end user uses
what you are trying to give them.  Is the basic idea to let them
say "I want to get Pasky's $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master and store
it in my $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/git-pb, and then I want to start
the pull starting from the commit recorded in that ref"?

DB> Yes. This would be: git-http-pull -w heads/git-pb heads/master
DB> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/git-pb.git/

That would be quite handy.  IIRC, Pasky had a gripe about
limiting this under refs hierarchy (that's why you can write
"heads/master" in your example not "refs/heads/master", though),
and I am sympathetic to it.  Giving unlimited download access
anywhere under foobar.git/ would be fine.  About the receiving
side, letting things to be written anywhere the user wants would
also be fine.

Since this will all be scripted anyway, I do not mind if the
above example needs to be spelled as:

 $ git-http-pull -w ${GIT_DIR-.git}/refs/heads/git-pb refs/heads/master \
   http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/git-pb.git/